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Over 50 Palestinians lost their lives over the past year due to Zionist entity’s refusal to grant them visas to travel to the other parts of the occupied territories for medical treatment, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

According to the WHO figures released on Tuesday, a total of 54 Palestinians died in 2017 as they were waiting for travel permits from Israel’s overly bureaucratic visa issuance system.

Rights activists have long criticized Israel for depriving Palestinians of their right to healthcare, as the regime continues exercising rigorous security checks for those coming from the Gaza Strip to al-Quds and the West Bank for medical treatment.

MOSCOW - Russia is ready to consider ways to improve its bilateral relations with the United States, but only in conditions of equality, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Sunday, Sputnick reported.

In his interview with the Rossiya 1 broadcaster, Lavrov stressed that Russia was open for any framework that Washington was willing to use to improve bilateral dialogue, but "exclusively on the basis of equality and without preconditions."

'There are other countries in the region with such programs. We must look at it as a whole. It is hardly justified to mix nuclear affairs with human rights and put the issue on the agenda that Iran should stop taking certain steps in the region… to my mind, a frankly discriminatory, biased and unjustifiably captious approach can be seen behind these US actions,' Lavrov said in an interview with Russian TV, according to IRNA.

TEHRAN – A senior Lebanese political analyst praised the Syrian army’s move to shoot down an Israeli F-16 fighter jet and said Damascus proved that it possesses needed equipment to defend its national sovereignty.

Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Ghalib Qandil said the downing of the Israeli jet by the Syrian army’s air defense forces indicates the power and will of the country’s government to defend its territories.